Q. The author of the book The Sixth Extinction: An Unnatural History, which demonstrates that the earth and humans are in the midst of the sixth mass extinction and was awarded the Pulitzer Prize 2015 for General Nonfiction Category
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The Sixth Extinction: An Unnatural History is a 2014 non-fiction book written by Elizabeth Kolbert and published by Henry Holt & Company.
The book argues that the Earth is in the midst of a modern, man-made, sixth extinction. In the book, Kolbert chronicles previous mass extinction events and compares them to the accelerated, widespread extinctions during our present time. She also describes specific species extinguished by humans, as well as the ecologies surrounding prehistoric and near-present extinction events. The author received the Pulitzer Prize for General Non-Fiction for the book in 2015.
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